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The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has called for a harmonized legal framework that will enhance and ease movement of cargoes within the African continent.
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| Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) seeks harmonized framework for cargo movement within Africa |
Speaking at the secondcontinental conference of African Women in Maritime WIMAFRICA, in Lagos, Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman, said that an African framework targeted at enhancing the conveyance of cargos and the quality of logistics in a more predictable manner will increase trade amongst countries in the regions.
Usman also said that the move to have such a harmonized framework in the Africa has become imperative to eliminate encumbrances affecting trade liberalization and facilitation in the continent.
She, therefore, enjoined members of WIMAFRICA to key into the concept of trade facilitation, which she noted is a major driver of economic development and growth of Nations, adding that this will enable Africa to effectively maximize the tremendous benefits of trade facilitation.
The NPA boss however charge members of WIMAFRICA to unravel critical issues preventing the continent from taking the advantages of the prospects of trade facilitation just as she also admonished them to come up with strategic plans that will upscale the desired growth and development of the economy of the continent.
She stated: “For us in the continent to get trade facilitation right, it is imperative that our regulatory environment must be tied with best practices and strengthened to ensure that operators in the trade corridors and border posts adhere to the various articles of the World Trade Organization on Trade Facilitation Agreements.
“We in the continent, more than ever before, need to redefine our trade processes to ensure simplification of documentation, automation, efficiency, transparency and professionalism; this no doubt will engender ease of doing business”.
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